The research, done in mice and in human cells, shows that a protein called STUB1 restrains the immune system’s elite ...

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A few limited clinical trials of lithium for Alzheimer’s disease have shown some efficacy, but the lithium compounds they ...

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For Rogulja, an associate professor of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, an intriguing aspect of sleep is the loss of consciousness and awareness it brings, as the ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of medicine, biomedical research, medical education and policy related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the disease COVID-19. Only a ...

Wei-Chung Allen Lee is working in a new field of neuroscience called connectomics that aims to comprehensively map connections between neurons. Video: Catherine Caruso, Stephanie Dutchen, and Tyler ...

The answer is clear for a handful of well-known genetic mutations, yet despite dramatic leaps in genome sequencing technology over the past 20 years, our ability to interpret the meaning of millions ...

For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However, artificial ...